Science & Space

Why it’s so hard to tell which climate policies actuall...

Better tools are needed to analyse their effects

An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped—human brains c...

For now, it is the most sophisticated connectome ever made

NASA is selling a brand-new Moon rover

Never used, one previous owner

SpaceX is NASA’s biggest lunar rival

The company’s successes are also showing up the agency’s failings

Noise-dampening tech could make ships less disruptive t...

Solutions include bendy propellers and “acoustic black holes”

There’s lots of gold in urban waste dumps

The pay dirt could be 15 times richer than natural deposits

A battle is raging over the definition of open-source AI

Companies that bet on the right one could win big

Researchers are questioning if ADHD should be seen as a...

It should, instead, be seen as a different way of being normal

The two types of human laugh

One is caused by tickling; the other by everything else

Dreams of asteroid mining, orbital manufacturing and mu...

Ideas for making money in orbit that seemed mad in the 1960s now look sane

Stimulating parts of the brain can help the paralysed t...

Implanted electrodes allowed one man to climb stairs unaided

AI can bring back a person’s own voice

And it can generate sentences trained on their own writing

Carbon emissions from tourism are rising disproportiona...

The industry is failing to make itself greener

Machine translation is almost a solved problem

But interpreting meanings, rather than just words and sentences, will be a daunt...

Giving children the wrong (or not enough) toys may doom...

Survival is a case of child’s play

Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why

Paradoxically, cleaner emissions from ships and power plants are playing a role

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